“You’re with me or you’re against me” Recently, I’ve been contemplating speaking my mind on this subject. Actually for a long time. It’s rather upsetting in a community that is supposed to adhere to the values of skeptical inquiry, scientific analysis, and rational questioning that we are required as a matter of principle to abandon [Read More...]

Official Instructions Available here. So people have been tossing grenades these last couple weeks. As an experienced grenadier I thought I’d throw a few pointers out there. For starters most people assume the grenade in use today is the old-school pineapple grenade that looks like this: That is incorrect. Before I joined the Marines I [Read More...]

The chief motivation for moving the RBB blog to Patheos is to circumvent the increasingly frequent blocking of our site at many military bases. These bases allow similar content from religious perspectives, so it’s not just some blanket policy on blogs. Frankly, this is likely to come up again (and again). Even the main website [Read More...]

PZ does ‘it’…? By ‘it’ I mean ‘PZ supports the troops’, and not just his son who is an officer in the US Army. Paul Loebe is a foxhole atheist in the United States Marine Corps. Paul is leading a small group of people toward the front line of a subterranean culture war that the [Read More...]

The Religious Antagonist was causing quite a stir at the AA Convention in Washington D.C. Everyone was talking about the guy who Richard Dawkins told to ‘fuck off’. Nobody warned me, but I think I handled myself alright. www.youtube.com/embed/8H25ADf8I3I?rel=0 He cut out one thing from our conversation. I’m paraphrasing: Religious Antagonist: “Do atheists have bigger holes [Read More...]

Google’s autocomplete feature has built in filters. If you type in naughty words, you probably wont see suggestions pop up. For a time, the phrase “Islam is” didn’t prompt any suggestions. Despite the fact that no other religions were spared insults, Google claimed that it was because of a ‘bug’. Now that particular ‘bug’ is [Read More...]

Don’t believe me? Look for yourself. Attentive Rock Beyond Belief readers noticed this early this morning. PZ spoke about 72 virgins in disturbing detail. Gross. But things are different now. Atheist PZ Myers is not creepy. He’s now a very prominent atheist blogger (you may have heard his name before.) Compare that first picture with recently [Read More...]

Oh, you fixed it. Anyway, we’ve been breaking the series of tubes that is our website. So we’re upgrading the modem from a paper cup and string all the way to a 2400 baud AOL dedi. To make things interesting, we’re doing this around 10PM Eastern (11 Bermuda Triangle Time) on 11/11/11. Wait, that’s not [Read More...]

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